Shite in Miniature II

[bunglebus]

10 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

ERTL ?

I dread to think what that went for!

That and the ETRL Fall Guy pickup seem to sell very quickly for strong money

It was in with the job lot so not too terrible. Got a couple of these now in search of a good one

[flat4alfa]

On 2/29/2020 at 6:49 PM, bunglebus said:

I wonder if the little dude out of this

Fits this?

NEWS JUST IN !

It's the same Dude.  Or a very close relation.

I did not know this.  I mean, its not as if there has been past history of British and German Royal Houses having similar facial characteristics and also linked into a war footing...

[martc]

49 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

I did not know this.  I mean, its not as if there has been past history of British and German Royal Houses having similar facial characteristics and also linked into a war footing...

Can you get Tsar Nicolas II in a Lada to complete the set?

Kaiser Bill, t'Tsar and George the Fifth, all cousins.

[egg]

2 hours ago, bunglebus said:

This little oddball Corgi is The Futura apparently

I did one last year, but gave it to charity hopefully to inspire some 'gen z' kid about the wonders of the 1970's!

[flat4alfa]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Can you get Tsar Nicolas II in a Lada to complete the set?

Kaiser Bill, t'Tsar and George the Fifth, all cousins.

Working on it !

Need to find a cartoonish model in same scale... or it will have to be a Zapo instead.

Looking for a cartoonish 2CV as well

[Datsuncog]

Nice day today... for a bit of rub-a-dub-dub on the long-neglected tat box, retrieved from the back of the wardrobe.

Some of these were seriously manky - decades of attic dust and general yuk from wherever their previous owner had left them; handling these always leaves my hands feeling unpleasant. So into the sink they went...

...then, after a thorough rinse, outside to dry in the sun.

But at what point does mank develop into patina?

I couldn't bring myself to dunk this Scammell heavy wrecker yet... its abject griminess has a certain hard-won charm, weirdly.

Once cleaned up, I know it'll never look like this again.

So I took it round the flower beds for a last hurrah as a toy.

Also so that it could render assistance to a stricken DAF.

You'd think I'd be too old for this kinda shit...

Even the cat wondered what the hell I was doing, crawling round the lawn on my ample stomach.

Seems I really haven't grown up at all...

Plenty more still needing a wash too.

Tomorrow's job...

[eddyramrod]

I thought it was time to show off some ambulances...

There is a point.  SpottedLaurel posted pics of some models he wants to sell, and I claimed some.  One I didn't claim was a scuffed example of the Leyland DAF ambulance as seen above.  As you can see, I already have a MIB example, but it's a model I like.  I'm still agonising over it.  The other MIB is the Renault Master/Vauxhall Movano.  In the foreground is my owned-from-new and very overpainted Merc Binz by Matchbox; as you can see, I'm in the process of restoring it.  I've had it over 50 years...

Here's my other Merc, the 1/36 Corgi Bonna, with the Dinky Cadillac and a smaller-scale Ford E350.

Another Cadillac, this one by Corgi, and as you can see, it's an "older restoration" by, of course, me.  No idea what happened to the dome light it should have, so I just filled the hole.  Next to it: two variants of the 1961 Pontiac by Dinky.  The blue one is missing its tailgate.  And then you have to have a Citroen, don't you?  I think this is a partwork model.

I like the Matchbox Transit, seen here in Air Ambulance livery.  I also like Oxford Diecast's Austin K8, a lovely chunky model.  I need a plain van version to paint...  And who can resist the cute little Corgi Bedford?

More partworks now, from the Russian series that appeared in Poundland some years ago.  I have two more of the Volga estates, still in their bubbles, and one more of the Transitski still bubbled.  The VW is I think a Cararama.

That pretty-much covers my ambulance collection.  I still don't know whether I should go for SL's Leyland DAF, and I still need an Austin K8 in van form.  And I still have to finish restoring the Matchbox Merc, so you will probably see it again eventually.

[flat4alfa]

44 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

?

[Datsuncog]

1 hour ago, flat4alfa said:

?

 

Corgi Juniors Mercury Cougar XR7 in Fire Chief colours; liberated from the Charity Stall about a year ago!

It's been badly Humbrol'd but still intact, if a little on the shabby side.

It's available...

[flat4alfa]

40 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

It's available...

Thanks

Please tag it for popping into a future Cog Box ?

[flat4alfa]

Anyone have these?

Majorette Renault 4 Plein Air 

Hot Wheels Fiat 500D

Majorette Crazy Car

[bunglebus]

20191110_175740 by RS, on Flickr

20190825_121938 by RS, on Flickr

 

Seems I have the Plein and the Crazy car

[eddyramrod]

Never seen that Fiat!  Oh I need one of those, definitely.  And some Solido/Century Of Cars versions for painting....

[Jon]

I have a carded 500 in my for sale pile, although it's in Gulf colours. Pics later, if it's at all of interest?

[bunglebus]

8 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

I keep trying to get those Cadillac and Pontiac ambulances but they get expensive quickly.

Is your Binz a regular wheel?

[bunglebus]

58 minutes ago, Jon said:

I have a carded 500 in my for sale pile, although it's in Gulf colours. Pics later, if it's at all of interest?

Got this one

 

20190323_161224 by RS, on Flickr

 

Don't think I've ever seen a regular release of that casting though *edit* nope just the Gulf and the Air-Cooled premium versions

 

[eddyramrod]

22 hours ago, bunglebus said:

I keep trying to get those Cadillac and Pontiac ambulances but they get expensive quickly.

Is your Binz a regular wheel?

Yes it is.  I've had it since about 1966.

The blue Pontiac was a gift from a friend.  The white one, and the two Cadillacs, probably came from car-boot sales, I know I've had them a while.

Jon: yes please!

[Rab]

1. Four Sanitorium-1968 cereal box Formula 1 cars i just got in NZ at auction for one quid.

2.Politoys  No64  Brabham Formula 1. Made In Italy. Bought on car boot sale in Luxembourg.

3. Homemade steel van made ut of a piece of box section.Stronger than a Tonka. Trier flea market last year.

4. Triang Spot On 1/43 Ford Zephyr Six. I actually got two plus a Roadmaster Dodge Phoenix for a Fiver at Auction early this year in NZ

5. 3 x Dodge Challengers-Matchbox Superfast.1755. Berlin-Scotland -New Zealand.

6. The Saint XJS Jaguar that i was given for Xmas in 1977 by my Auntie. Preserved by Mother.

7.Solido DeTomaso Mangusta that i found in NZ ten years ago and Citroen SM Doctor Emergency Superking i found on a fleamarket in Trier last year.

8.Matra Rancho Team Corgi i got at Auction in NZ TEN YEARS AGO

 

 

 

[Datsuncog]

9 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Thanks

Please tag it for popping into a future Cog Box ?

Not a problem!

Washing and sorting is a precursor to some forthcoming sales pitching,  so I'll set that one aside for you - and there's more to come.

In the meantime, have some more pics from someone who really ought to know better...

Corgi Juniors Bedford TK skip truck, with load. There's something quite lovely about this wee model, despite the lack of glazing.

Matchbox MB72 Bomag road roller at work.

This was a fairly long-lived toy, originally listed from 1979-1981 as a mainline, before suddenly reappearing in 1991 as MB68 and clocking up another four years in the main range. It then put in sporadic appearances in various gift sets until 1999. This one is a Lesney original.

Although I'd cheerfully admit to having no interest in construction models like these, that's not quite true - I used to have quite a  few in my toy box, and very much enjoyed setting up construction dioramas outside.

We used to go to a National Trust campsite outside Downpatrick quite often in the caravan, and there was a small shallow stream on site with a concrete ledge - ideal for playing at dam construction, using my Matchbox toys.

No pics were ever taken, but these were fairly involved dioramas involving dozens of vehicles and accessories, including a large extendable crane which could usually be relied on to 'have an accident', thus necessitating the arrival of all my emergency services vehicles on the scene...

No such drama in the flower beds yesterday, but maybe I should see what else I have squirrelled away...

Here's more for the WDIB conundrums - the Ford D Series.

Corgi Juniors skip truck...

...or Lesney gritting truck?

(Yes, I know that's very coarse grit).

I reckon the earlier Matchbox version edges it on cab realism, though admittedly the Corgi's Whizzwheels do it no favours .

I am a sucker for a skip tipping mechanism, though.

Oddly, both Matchbox and Corgi produced the D-Series in larger scale articulated form too, but I no longer have either of those to compare.

More hot Scammell action.

This is, according to the Mack encyclopaedia, a less common variant of the K-2 heavy wreck truck - it has regular wheels and the old-style baseplate stating Matchbox King Size, but instead of being white, the shell's painted metallic gold like the later Superkings version with nylon speed wheels. Guess it's a transitional model c.1971.

More man-child flowerbed action still to come!

(I'd built a patio seating set for MrsDC yesterday out of scrap timber, so she just left me to my own devices without further comment.)

[Split_Pin]

31 minutes ago, Rab said:

1. Four Sanitorium-1968 cereal box Formula 1 cars i just got in NZ at auction for one quid.

2.Politoys  No64  Brabham Formula 1. Made In Italy. Bought on car boot sale in Luxembourg.

3. Homemade steel van made ut of a piece of box section.Stronger than a Tonka. Trier flea market last year.

4. Triang Spot On 1/43 Ford Zephyr Six. I actually got two plus a Roadmaster Dodge Phoenix for a Fiver at Auction early this year in NZ

5. 3 x Dodge Challengers-Matchbox Superfast.1755. Berlin-Scotland -New Zealand.

6. The Saint XJS Jaguar that i was given for Xmas in 1977 by my Auntie. Preserved by Mother.

7.Solido DeTomaso Mangusta that i found in NZ ten years ago and Citroen SM Doctor Emergency Superking i found on a fleamarket in Trier last year.

8.Matra Rancho Team Corgi i got at Auction in NZ TEN YEARS AGO

 

 

 

Nice to see you back Rab 

[Split_Pin]

19 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Not a problem!

Washing and sorting is a precursor to some forthcoming sales pitching,  so I'll set that one aside for you - and there's more to come.

In the meantime, have some more pics from someone who really ought to know better...

Corgi Juniors Bedford TK skip truck, with load. There's something quite lovely about this wee model, despite the lack of glazing.

Matchbox MB72 Bomag road roller at work.

This was a fairly long-lived toy, originally listed from 1979-1981 as a mainline, before suddenly reappearing in 1991 as MB68 and clocking up another four years in the main range. It then put in sporadic appearances in various gift sets until 1999. This one is a Lesney original.

Although I'd cheerfully admit to having no interest in construction models like these, that's not quite true - I used to have quite a  few in my toy box, and very much enjoyed setting up construction dioramas outside.

We used to go to a National Trust campsite outside Downpatrick quite often in the caravan, and there was a small shallow stream on site with a concrete ledge - ideal for playing at dam construction, using my Matchbox toys.

No pics were ever taken, but these were fairly involved dioramas involving dozens of vehicles and accessories, including a large extendable crane which could usually be relied on to 'have an accident', thus necessitating the arrival of all my emergency services vehicles on the scene...

No such drama in the flower beds yesterday, but maybe I should see what else I have squirrelled away...

Here's more for the WDIB conundrums - the Ford D Series.

Corgi Juniors skip truck...

...or Lesney gritting truck?

(Yes, I know that's very coarse grit).

I reckon the Matchbox version edges it on cab realism, though admittedly the Corgi's wheels do it no favours .

I am a sucker for a skip tipping mechanism, though.

Oddly, both Matchbox and Corgi produced the D-Series in larger scale articulated form too, but I no longer have either of those to compare.

More hot Scammell action.

This is, according to the Mack encyclopaedia, a less common variant of the K-2 heavy wreck truck - it has regular wheels and the old-style baseplate stating Matchbox King Size, but instead of being white, the shell's painted metallic gold like the later Superkings version with nylon speed wheels. Guess it's a transitional model c.1971.

More man-child flowerbed action still to come!

(I'd built a patio seating set for MrsDC yesterday out of scrap timber, so she just left me to my own devices without further comment.)

More of this sort of thing, I think I'll have a go myself! Sadly my garden is rather austere as I tend to not be able to keep plants and flowers alive!

[martc]

13 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Working on it !

Need to find a cartoonish model in same scale... or it will have to be a Zapo instead.

Looking for a cartoonish 2CV as well

Who'll be driving? Marshall Foch for the 'tache action, or General de Gaulle for period correctness but pretty poor upper lip ornamentation?

Either way you'll have to fabricate a kepi.

 

 

 

[bunglebus]

You know all those Chinese Bedford/Chevrolet vans with the portholes?

 

I think I worked out where they're copied from

 

 

[Datsuncog]

41 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

...fairly involved dioramas involving dozens of vehicles and accessories, including a large extendable crane which could usually be relied on to 'have an accident', thus necessitating the arrival of all my emergency services vehicles on the scene...

Found out which crane it was - the CS 64 Grove AT 1100.

Seems this was a short-lived model available for 1993 only, and I can remember buying mine from Poundstretcher in Springhill Shopping Centre. I think it cost me a fiver, which was over a month's pocket money.

Weirdly, this went missing at some point and I still don't know where it went. Pity, as it was a brilliant model and worked really well with my other constuction vehicles.

You can see just how big it was compared to the standard range.

Although the jib extended, I don't think the side stabiliser legs pulled out, so it wasn't all that difficult for it to tip over when in use.

I'm kinda craving that construction set now...

[Datsuncog]

37 minutes ago, Split_Pin said:

Sadly my garden is rather austere as I tend to not be able to keep plants and flowers alive!

No, I have a magical talent for killing greenery too - to the extent that I'm pretty much barred from doing any hands-on gardening.

I really don't know what it is either - as an example, I was once given a chilli plant and by the time I got it home, all the leaves had fallen off it in the space of half an hour.

Luckily, that means the flower beds are pretty barren in places and so ideal for mucking about with wee toys...

 

12 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

You know all those Chinese Bedford/Chevrolet vans with the portholes?

I think I worked out where they're copied from

Crikey, didn't know those Hong Kong Ford Econolines appeared in the last-gasp Dinky range... but it does indeed look like exactly the same casting, still being peddled well into the 1990s.

Good sleuthing!

 

[bunglebus]

I got sniped on one on eBay

[bunglebus]

22 minutes ago, Datsuncog said:

Found out which crane it was - the CS 64 Grove AT 1100.

I had the Hercules. Extending/rotating boom, extending legs etc - loved it

 

[Datsuncog]

Of course, if you want to construct something, you have to clear the site first... and wouldn't you know it, there's always some scallywag fly-tipping their old rubbish.

Bloody typical.

Best get those old scrappers dragged out the way...

Should get a couple of quid from T-Met for the hulks, any road.

Job's a good 'un.

[bunglebus]

Scrap? A Corgi Corvair? Nooooo!

[Jon]

Here's my Hot Wheels 500 I picked up last year (and which is the same as bunglebus's version), if anyone's interested. 

 

 

Sadly, these aren't as cheap as regular hotwheels, so a slightly inflated £4 would see me recouping my money on it, I think. Postage to the UK may be another matter, though! In an ideal world, I'd prefer something older (i.e. made last century) and more 1/43 sized in an exchange (I fully embrace careworn!), so cash doesn't have to part ways and I sort of hone my collecting.

Or as per usual, be willing to wait for my return trip to Britain to save on postage - which understandably is May 2021, not May 2020 as planned.....